Six key matchups for Game 6
Buster OlneySix key matchups to watch in Game 6: Chase Utley versus the Yankees' adjustments: The Phillies' second baseman is not missing any fastballs; he is ha...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 04, 2009
A new chapter for Lee and Sabathia
Buster Olney...lots of phone calls of support to Lee in Buffalo, N.Y. Sabathia won the 2007 Cy Young Award and was traded in 2008, and when Lee won the Cy Young Award in 2008 and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 27, 2009
Replay for the World Series could work
Buster OlneyDon Denkinger, an umpire who had one of the most famous blown calls in history, tells Bob Klapisch: It's time to go to replay. Here's the thing: Even...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2009
Sabathia giving Yankees whatever they need
Buster Olney...decidedly did not live up to the hype). Sabathia has been an All-Star and a Cy Young Award winner and yet he has made adjustments and changes when necessary. He has worked on tempering...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009
How the Yankees can slow the Angels
Buster OlneyThe Yankees' internal conversation about how to slow down the Angels' running game in this postseason started a little while back -- before spring tra...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2009
Opening up the mailbag
Buster Olney...Atlanta Braves. He just turned 20, and his physical presence and skills remind some evaluators of a young Darryl Strawberry, but he appears to be a much more refined prospect than Strawberry ever was. Heyward...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 09, 2009
Porcello's fastball will be his tell
Buster Olney...touches his glasses; for Porcello, the scout maintained, the fastball will tell us everything about how the young pitcher is feeling. And if the Tigers starting pitcher is nervous, well, that wouldn't be a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2009
The catch heard 'round the Rockies
Buster OlneyThere were no tangible advantages working in favor of Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes in the ninth inning late Sunday afternoon as he turned to pu...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009
Duensing among unlikely September stars
Buster Olney...first nine outings out of the bullpen, Duensing's ERA was 5.50. For Buster's Cy Young and MVP picks, a landing spot for Milton Bradley, issues with Joba, and much more, you must...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2009
Giambi helps keep Rockies relaxed, rolling
Buster Olney...Jr. in the lineup," O'Dowd said. Clint Barmes slid from second base to shortstop and Eric Young Jr. filled in. "His speed is just draw-dropping," O'Dowd said. On Tuesday, Young hit his...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 12, 2009
Why Holliday could end up a rental
Buster Olney...make $16 million in salary next year, and Chris Carpenter, the leading contender for the NL Cy Young Award, is set to make $14.5 million. Kyle Lohse will make $8.9 million, Yadier Molina...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 11, 2009
How teams can learn from the Marlins
Buster OlneyRicky Nolasco came into the season projected to be a leader of one of the best young rotations in the majors. On May 22, Nolasco gave up eight runs over two innings, and immediately...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009
Seven possibilities for a Mets front man
Buster OlneyOrdinary news briefings have become public-relations disasters for the New York Mets, writes Ben Shpigel, and members of the team's ownership have end...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 27, 2009
Rice swung and missed on Jeter
Buster OlneyOn a Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, I happened across a YES Network broadcast of Yankee Ron Guidry's 18-strikeout game against the California Ang...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2009
Baseball's week of U-turns
Buster OlneyThe baseball world has been a place of a lot of U-turns lately: If you pegged the Nationals for fewer than 40 victories in your office pool, well, yo...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 10, 2009
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